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Comment you got it wrong too (Score 1) 476

The cable doesn't know anything about the battery state. The cable is a souped-up extension cord with some protection and detection. The charger in the car does the charging, it knows the battery state. The EVSE (the proper name of this cable) is not supposed to shut off when the current goes down, the charger in the car will take care of that.

The car has always stopped charging at full, since trickle charging a Li-Ion battery is a great way to put excess wear on it.

Tesla's EVSE may be cutting off due to power problems. While it may not be Tesla's fault specifically, this would be an issue Tesla has to address.

Comment standard deviation doesn't weight by observation (Score 1) 312

It weights by the difference between the observation and the mean, by the variation. So large observations are not weighed any more than small ones. Two observations equally far from the mean get equal weight.

Widely varying observations do get higher weight and that is intentional. Standard deviation is that way because it is so useful in analysis of variance and measuring likelihood of statistical significance.

Comment but it didn't remove the option. (Score 5, Informative) 130

The agreement was not to reach out and poach others' workers. It wasn't to refuse to hire them. You still had the option of getting a 25% raise to go to Google, all you have to do is apply to Google.

The agreement didn't reduce the options available to people, it just made it so the engineer had to take the first step, the recruiter wouldn't call you to entice you.

Comment Re:Stunning preview? (Score 2) 94

Google also does that. They integrate panoramia pictures in some locations.

Go to "Old Tucson Studios" in google maps (not the preview). Grab the man and drag him to a spot on the map. You will get pictures of the different buildings. In some you can click on other areas which will transition to another picture a different person too. You can move around like this. It's all from public pictures.

Google hasn't integrated this into the preview yet, so they clearly don't know what to do with it yet.

Software

GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language 575

FooAtWFU writes "Some clowns and jokers over at 4chan thought it would be a funny idea to put together a web page for a programming language named 'C Plus Equality' as a parody of feminism, dismissing OOP as 'objectifying' and inheritance as "a tool of the patriarchy". But this parody was apparently too hot to host at Github, which took down the original Github repository after receiving criticism on Twitter, prompting a backlash and inquiry into the role of free speech and censorship on Github's platform. The project has since found a new home on BitBucket, at least for the time being." Comments on an article describing the research which sparked the parody call the parody's language "fake," and compare it to the 1996 Sokal affair. (It also reminds me a bit of Jesux.)

Comment it's more like bearer bonds (Score 3, Insightful) 258

And issuance of stock certificates. This person is allowed to continue his work if he works according to the regulations.

Same with those who issue stock certificates.

Bearer bonds are so heavily regulated that you never see them anymore in the US, some say they are essentially illegal in the US now.

Networking

ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 153

alphadogg writes "The ITU has taken a big step in the standardization of G.fast, a broadband technology capable of achieving download speeds of up to 1Gbps over copper telephone wire. The death of copper and the ascent of fiber has long been discussed. However, the cost of rolling out fiber is still too high for many operators that instead want to upgrade their existing copper networks. So there is still a need for technologies that can complement fiber, including VDSL2 and G.fast. Higher speeds are needed for applications such as 4K streaming, IPTV, cloud-based storage, and communication via HD video, ITU said." Meanwhile, I'm hoping Google Fiber, FIOS, and other fast optical options scare more ISPs into action along both price and speed axes.

Comment Re:if you can access it on a website (Score 1) 107

Oh. Okay. The single page project page wasn't all that descriptive so I went by the summary partly and stated you had to go to a website and enter a PIN to log in. It wasn't particularly clear.

If this is just a smartcard, then this system has been in use for at least a decade. MS' internal VPN system used a smartcard login system, and IE supports it. That system is even more secure actually because it uses a challenge response and a PIN, it doesn't just decrypt a password which can be captured on the host computer and reused.

Security

Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device 107

An anonymous reader writes "The Hackaday writer Mathieu Stephan (alias limpkin) has just launched a new open source/hardware project together with the Hackaday community. The concept behind this product is to minimize the number of ways your passwords can be compromised, while generating long and complex random passwords for the different websites people use daily. It consists of a main device where users' credentials are encrypted, and a PIN locked smartcard containing the encryption key. Simply visit a website and the device will ask for confirmation to enter your credentials when you need to login. All development steps will be documented and all resources available for review."

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